Kayleigh Whitman is a fifth year PhD student at Vanderbilt University. She studies American Religious History with a special focus on questions of race, religion, and activism. She is the recipient of the 2020 Nancy and Randall Burkett Fellowship. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, African American women were the vanguard of the international struggle Read More …
Monet Lewis-Timmons is an English PhD candidate at the University of Delaware and an alumna of Emory University (℅ 2018) where she double majored in English and African American Studies. Her dissertation research focuses on the genealogical lifecycle of Black women’s archives through Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s personal papers. This semester she is interning at the Rose Read More …
Willie Lieberman is a third-year student in the History honors program specializing in European Studies. The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is shining a spotlight on female authors to celebrate Women’s History Month. Two of the most important writers of the 20th century are Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Read More …
Willie Lieberman is a third-year student in the History honors program specializing in European Studies. March is Women’s History Month – a time to celebrate women’s accomplishments throughout history, address past and present injustices, and pave the path to a more liberated future for all women. The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Read More …
In partnership with Emory University’s Rose Library and the Exhibitions team of Woodruff Library, Georgia Public Library Service is launching a tour of She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers to libraries statewide. Curated by Gabrielle Dudley, the six panel exhibit will tour Georgia Public Libraries until 2022. The exhibit features luminaries Read More …
“Revealing Her Story: Documenting African American Women Intellectuals” is a two-year project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to arrange and describe the personal papers of nine African American women writers, artists and musicians. Collections included in the project are the Pearl Cleage papers; additions to the Delilah Jackson papers; the Samella Read More …
“Revealing Her Story: Documenting African American Women Intellectuals” is a two-year project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to arrange and describe the personal papers of nine African American women writers, artists and musicians. Collections included in the project are the Pearl Cleage papers; additions to the Delilah Jackson papers; the Samella Read More …
“Revealing Her Story: Documenting African American Women Intellectuals” is a two-year project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to arrange and describe the personal papers of nine African American women writers, artists and musicians. Collections included in the project are the Pearl Cleage papers; additions to the Delilah Jackson papers; the Samella Read More …
Minute Book of the Frances E.W. Harper Literary and Social Circle, 1915-1929 Share I have always been fascinated by African American women who organized themselves into literary, social, and service organizations during the early to mid-twentieth century. Many of these clubs were founded within 50 years of emancipation and mark a thirst by African Read More …
MARBL is honored to add Conditions: a magazine of writing by women with an emphasis on writing by lesbians to our holdings. Conditions comes to MARBL through a generous gift made possible by Professor Cheryl Clarke of Rutgers University and Julie Enszer of the University of Maryland. First published in 1977, the magazine spans Read More …
Correspondence from Imogene Hoyle to Amaryllis Bomar, “Atlanta is very dull now.”, June 30, 1863[?], Bomar Family Papers Share Related Story: Discovering Atlanta Related Links: Bomar Family Papers Finding Aid Civil War Research Guide Join the discussion While MARBL holds a significant amount of letters to and from soldiers in the Civil War between Read More …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist Are you eagerly awaiting the second part of season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton? Us too! To tide us all over, I have selected twelve of Rose Library’s rare books that were published during or near the regency period. But first – what is the regency period? The regency Read More …
